The Cure - Trilogy (2003) [HD FLAC Stereo 24/96]

The Cure - Trilogy (Live In The Tempodrom Berlin November 2002)
[2009 Blu-ray Audio Demux LPCM Stereo 24/96]

The Cure: Trilogy (Live In The Tempodrom Berlin November 2002) is a double live album video by The Cure, released on two double layer DVD-9 discs, and later on a single Blu-Ray disc. It documents The Trilogy Concerts, in which the three albums, Pornography (1982), Disintegration (1989) and Bloodflowers (2000) were played live in their entirety one after the other each night, the songs being played in the order in which they appeared on the albums. Trilogy was recorded on two consecutive nights, 11–12 November 2002, at the Tempodrom arena in Berlin. A third, previous Trilogy concert in Brussels on 7 November was not used.

Robert Smith is quoted on the sleeve about the "trilogy" concept and its eventual execution:

"The albums Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers are inextricably linked in so many ways, and the realisation of this Trilogy show is one of the highlights of my time in The Cure."

Smith began arranging the concerts days after seeing David Bowie's Heathen Tour concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 29 June 2002, when Bowie played 10 of the 11 Low tracks consecutively[citation needed] (though not in album order), and the whole of the Heathen album in order. It was, said Smith, "the best I'd seen him on stage for years and years".

The two DVDs feature a letterboxed 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio and a choice of Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound or regular PCM stereo. Two interviews with the band are also included, though one is hidden and requires the specific manipulation of a DVD player's remote control to be accessed. Another hidden feature is the "mic cam", a camera mounted on Smith's microphone pole which, when accessed with the angle control buttons, shows him in a fish-eye view, singing.

The band's line-up for this production was Smith (vocals, guitar, 6-string bass guitar), Simon Gallup (4- and 6-string bass guitars), Perry Bamonte (guitar, 6-string bass, keyboards), Jason Cooper (drums, percussion) and Roger O'Donnell (keyboards, percussion). The songs performed were written by the band members, and, in the case of the first two albums, by former members Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst, Porl Thompson and Boris Williams.

The first DVD contains the Pornography and Disintegration sets, and the second consists of the Bloodflowers set, a short encore—"If Only Tonight We Could Sleep" and "The Kiss" from the album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987)—and both interviews. Robert said that the two extra songs were included as a preview of "what was to come" in future Cure releases, despite later saying that the Trilogy concerts were supposed to be the Cure's swan song, though Smith has been notorious for saying such things in the past, usually coinciding with the release of new albums. In the two Trilogy shows at the Tempodrom a second encore was performed consisting of "M", "Play For Today" and "A Forest" the first night, and the same plus "Grinding Halt" and "Boys Don't Cry" the second night. ~

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The Cure: Trilogy Blu-ray, Audio Quality

There are three different audio tracks on this Blu-ray disc: Music: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (96KHz/24-Bit), Music: Dolby Digital 5.1, and Music: LPCM. I opted for the DTS-HD MA 5.1 track and did random comparisons with the other two for the purpose of this review.

The audio treatment Eagle Rock Entertainment have secured for the Trilogy will surely delight fans of The Cure. The DTS-HD MA 5.1 track is potent, with plenty of activity in the rear channels and, more importantly, well balanced. Robert Smith's voice comes off the speakers with great resonance and so are the wailing guitars of Perry Bamonte and Simon Gallup. The bass is full and rich – the energetic openings for "The Hanging Garden", "A Strange Day", and 39 are a great example for the type of audio presentation Blu-ray is capable of delivering. Superb!

As I mentioned earlier, I did perform random comparisons between the DTS-HD MA 5.1 track and the Dolby Digital 5.1 and LPCM tracks. To make a long story short, there have been certain releases by Eagle Rock Entertainment in the past where I felt that the LPCM track was quite effective in improving certain balance issues. Fortunately enough, there is nothing that needs to be improved here. Furthermore, neither the LPCM track nor the Dolby Digital 5.1 track matches the quality of sound introduced by the DTS-HD MA 5.1 track. Take for example the intoxicating "Watch Me Fall" and listen to it with each of the three mixes. The depth and fullness of sound the DTS-HD MA 5.1 track delivers isn't even remotely noticeable via the LPCM and Dolby Digital 5.1 mixes. Quite frankly, if you cannot hear the enormous gap in quality between the DTS-HD MA 5.1 and the other two mixes on this Blu-ray disc, then there is something terribly wrong with your audio system. To sum it all up, The Cure: Trilogy is undoubtedly the best live show Eagle Rock Entertainment have released thus far. Simply terrific! ~https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Cure-Trilogy-Blu-ray/3707/

Technical

Blu-ray audio track demux: PCM: English, 2.0, 96kHz, 24-bit, 4608kbps
Format: 31 x Files, FLAC, Album, 96kHz, 24-bit
Audio Codec: FLAC
Rip type: image+.cue
Quality: lossless
Sample rate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2961 kbps
Encoding: lossless
Tool: reference libFLAC 1.3.2 20170101
Embedded cuesheet: no
Audio MD5: 9314CB10E2501FCA4CCA0F871F2A6C68
Duration: 3:12:34.688
Rip by: gonzalo76 (aka stones4ever)

Tracklist

Pornography Set

01. One Hundred Years [00:07:02]
02. A Short Term Effect [00:04:19]
03. The Hanging Garden [00:04:36]
04. Siamese Twins [00:05:35]
05. The Figurehead [00:06:45]
06. A Strange Day [00:04:57]
07. Cold [00:04:11]
08. Pornography [00:06:26]

Disintegration Set

09. Plainsong [00:04:52]
10. Pictures of You [00:07:42]
11. Closedown [00:04:22]
12. Lovesong [00:03:44]
13. Last Dance [00:05:04]
14. Lullaby [00:04:41]
15. Fascination Street [00:05:18]
16. Prayers for Rain [00:05:59]
17. The Same Deep Water as You [00:09:14]
18. Disintegration [00:08:22]
19. Homesick [00:07:12]
20. Untitled [00:06:40]

Bloodflowers Set

21. Out of This World [00:06:48]
22. Watching Me Fall [00:11:28]
23. Where the Birds Always Sing [00:05:47]
24. Maybe Someday [00:05:20]
25. The Last Day of Summer [00:05:47]
26. There Is No If... [00:04:00]
27. The Loudest Sound [00:05:17]
28. 39 [00:07:23]
29. Bloodflowers [00:08:17]

Encore section

30. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep [00:05:12]
31. The Kiss [00:07:33]

Credits

Bass, Bass [6 String] – Simon Gallup
Drums, Percussion – Jason Cooper
Guitar, Bass [6 String], Keyboards – Perry Bamonte
Keyboards, Percussion – Roger O'Donnell
Music By – Williams* ( tracks: 9 to 19, 29, 30 ) Cooper* ( tracks: 20 to 28 ) Tolhurst* ( tracks: 1 to 19, 29, 30 ) Bamonte* ( tracks: 20 to 28 ) Thompson* ( tracks: 9 to 19, 29, 30 ) O'Donnell* ( tracks: 9 to 28 ), Gallup*
Voice, Guitar, Bass [6 String] – Robert Smith
Words By, Music By – Smith*

Notes

Recorded live in the Tempodrom Berlin, November 2002.

Video: 1080i High Definition Widescreen 16x9 (1.78:1)
Audio: LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS Master Audio 96/24

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